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Kara Walker - Book of Hours
Isbn 9789464460070
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22130
€ 40.00
Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary political moment. The book comes with a poster.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Imagine something new, like justice
Isbn 9783948212711
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 22116
€ 15.30
'Imagine something new, like justice' is a publication project realised by the 2019–2021 fellows of the Graduate School programme at the Berlin University of the Arts: Yalda Afsah, Salwa Aleryani, Neslihan Arol, Anthony R. Green, Mariam Mekiwi, Rindon Johnson, and R A Walden. The intricacies of building societal, historical, corporeal, and environmental justices today in theory and praxis make the common denominator among their sonic, visual, filmic, theatrical, literal, sculptural, and installation oriented researches.
224 p, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English/Arabic/Turkish
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Marlene Dumas - Intimate Relations (new edition)
Isbn 9789464460117
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22120
€ 30.00
Dumas’ first solo show in South Africa after moving to The Netherlands 30 years ago provided occasion for this catalogue. Featured are more than 50 paintings, drawings and prints presented at the exhibition, as well as personal letters, documents and photographs collected by the artist. A selection of the artist’s own writings is included, ranging from her unique commentaries on art to aphoristic writings and poetry that are once insightful, witty and thought-provoking.
140 p, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Not Fully Human, Not Human at All
Isbn 9783948212773
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 22118
€ 20.45
The project 'Not Fully Human, Not Human at All' looks into processes of dehumanization that are are taking place in Europe. Dehumanization is generally understood as the degradation of human life, that human beings inflict upon each other. The artists taking part in the project question the the obsolete category of the human, by imagining concepts from a new vocabulary of the process that can be called re-humanization.
160 p, 17 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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Subjective Atlas of Kaunas
Isbn 9789464448009
Publisher Subjective Editions
Idea code 22099
€ 24.50
Between 1919 and 1940, Kaunas served as Lithuania’s temporary capital, triggering a massive boom in construction that greatly increased its urban area. For this instalment of the Subjective Atlas series, a group of almost 40 creative residents mapped the contemporary identity of Kaunas through their personal interests, experiences, and domesticity, visualising the heritage and history of Lithuania’s second-largest city. The book highlights a surprising collection of urban, natural, and everyday spaces and artefacts, inviting readers to reflect on how this material and immaterial modernist heritage is perceived or observed, appreciated or disliked, ignored or associated with.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Lithuanian/English
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Victor Sonna - 152
Isbn 9789082902938
Publisher Van Abbemuseum
Idea code 22078
€ 27.50
While in New Orleans in 2015, Victor Sonna purchased shackles once used to subdue an enslaved person. Engraved on them was the number 152. This marked the start of a personal journey of discovery through Ghana, Suriname, and elsewhere. It culminated with an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum featuring 152 unique artworks, plus several films and 52 prints in which Sonna addresses the subject of slavery. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, this book adds greater depth to his complex investigation and artworks, which frequently utilise and dramatically transform existing material. Sonna was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and moved to the Netherlands at a young age.
244 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Thomas Hirschhorn - The Purple Line
Isbn 9788880561446
Publisher Nero
Idea code 22108
€ 32.25
Thomas Hirschhorn delves into the control of images, their authentication as facts, and the possibility of making visible portions of reality removed from our gaze through pixelation, a technique that renders an image unrecognisable. This MAXXI exhibition catalogue examines his research on ‘Pixel-Collage’, a cycle of works that combine advertising photos with images of mutilated bodies. The cycle aims to stimulate a cultural and political reflection on the visual imagery of the world today and on what is concealed or censored. By pixelating capitalism and consumerism and making visible the grisly reality, the selective logic with which images are normally shown is overturned.
246 p, 20 x 30 cm, pb,
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The Return of DADA (4 volume box set)
Isbn 9782378962081
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code 22115
€ 37.65
In a re-evaluation of the scholarly knowledge about Dada and its legacy, this publication reconstructs how the movement was (re)invented in the 1950s and ’60s, especially by the Dada protagonists themselves. It also asks to what extent Dada’s impulses are still relevant in terms of current aesthetic, literary, and cultural analyses today. Dada has existed for more than a century, but what does it mean to come back to Dada? The four volumes in this collection offer answers and explore how Dada has written itself into our cultural history. This publication follows the eponymous international symposium at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, organised by Agathe Mareuge and Sandro Zanetti in 2016.
208 + 184 + 196 + 176 p, 4 volumes, 15 x 21 cm, pb, box set, French/English/German
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The City is Ours #1: Discarded Gums
Isbn 9789526878447
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 22096
€ 20.00
The first edition in a series of six “bookzines” that invite you to explore your surroundings with a more curious gaze. Each is dedicated to a single theme relating to a street-level detail, proving that anything can be more interesting and meaningful than what it seems to be. Unless you live in Switzerland or Singapore, chewing gum discarded on the ground is a ubiquitous sight. But why depositing gum on the ground has become acceptable in most places is still unclear. This issue offers a provocative and fresh perspective on a phenomenon that is too often seen in a negative light. How many types or colours can be found? Do they form constellations? And what about ants?
72 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Signs Fiction: Seeking a New Language
Isbn 9789526878423
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 22114
€ 12.00
SerraGlia is the alias of Italian architect and visual artist/designer Lorenzo Servi. Long fascinated by cities and semiotics, he decided to create an artistic and slightly ironic visual statement about a mysterious script developed by construction workers over the years. Made with adhesive tape, these signs are readable by only a select group. Is this some sort of secret language? Or is there in fact no meaning at all? SerraGlia does not seek to reveal the absolute truth of these found signs and strangely runic symbols. Instead, he wants to question our perception of our surroundings. Are things always as they seem?
48 p, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Wicked Little Town
Isbn 9783948212568
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 22117
€ 20.45
'Wicked Little Town' gathers more than fifty artists and critical thinkers traversing trans-temporal imaginations of resistance, unruliness, and non-compliance across genders, abilities and national borders. Highlighting companionship, alliances, and bonds, this publication tunes to critiques of normativity and dialogues around the interdependency between intersectional oppressions and collective paths of liberation. It assembles non-violent grammars and vocabularies, especially of those artists, scholars, and activists who are often excluded from dominant narratives.
512 p, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Guido Van Der Werve - Palpable Futility
Isbn 9789462086180
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22079
€ 39.95
Guido van der Werve built up an extraordinary oeuvre around timeless and universal themes such as the human condition. In Van der Werve’s universe, romance, nature, and the sublime are never far away; his dry humour often targets the beauty-cum-futility of human existence. 'Palpable Futility' describes and depicts Van der Werve’s entire oeuvre. Different authors approach his work from different perspectives and place it in an international art-historical context.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 28 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Albert Oehlen - Big paintings by me with small paintings by others
Isbn 9788867494613
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code
€ 32.25
The dual role of artist-collector is always an exciting coupling, and when the artist-collector is as elusive and discreet as Albert Oehlen, it is downright seductive. Albert Oehlen "big paintings by me with small paintings by others"—published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition at the MASI Lugano in 2021—witnesses Oehlen as an exhibited artist, a curator, and a collector. For the first time in such an extensive form, many of his own artworks are nail-to-nail with masterpieces from his collection.
120 p, 20 x 29 cm, hb, Italian/English
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HitneS - Memorie Viventi
Isbn 9788885449824
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 22048
€ 43.00
Italian street artist, muralist, and freelance illustrator HitneS conceived this book as a way to explain to anyone, young or old, that the pleasure of living together in a civil community often depends on the sacrifice of others, on the effort of those who fought for that community, and who demand from each of us a degree of civil engagement and responsibility. In it, he combines portraits and photographs from the front lines of the Great War with the hand-painted images one might find in a botanical reader on trees. With a clear sense of the value of history and memory, HitneS invokes our mythical perception of trees as beyond temporal limits and individual lives, lasting much longer than us.
60 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Ohara Koson
Isbn 9784808712051
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 21651
€ 33.15
The painter and print designer Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was part of the shin-hanga (“new prints”) movement that revitalised traditional ukiyo-e printmaking in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A prolific master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs, much of his large body of work consists of highly realistic and colourful depictions of feathered and blooming wildlife. Many of the prints he produced are presented here in stunning clarity alongside detailed close-ups which reveal the artist’s skilled and delicate technique.
192 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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The Happy Hypocrite –Without Reduction, issue 12
Isbn 9781912570102
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 22030
€ 15.20
“Without Reduction” marks the twelfth and final issue of ‘The Happy Hypocrite’ journal, which has been publishing experimental art writing for thirteen years. In conceiving it, editor Maria Fusco was informed and inspired by periodical publications with concise, meaningful lifespans. Her goal has always been to publish new work that would not otherwise have a place to be shared, to be experienced, or to be disagreed with. It makes space for other voices who need to say things in their own way. Among the varied contributors to this issue are Sumaya Kassim, Alison Balance, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Oisin Byrne, Jordan Baseman, Mohamedali Ltaief, Jesse Darling, and many more.
188 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Wolfgang Stoerchle - Success In Failure
Isbn 9782490844036
Publisher Daisy Editions
Idea code 22049
€ 37.65
Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944–1976) is a particularly notable artistic figure of the early seventies who left a certain but little advertised mark on a generation of Californian artists, especially through videotapes and performances involving his body as raw material. His short, but eventful life is surrounded by rumours, and his abrupt death in 1976 may have emphasized the myth around him even more. His entire body of work was produced in eleven years, between 1965 and 1976. Forty-five years after he passed away, his name still drifts across the West Coast art world, awaiting wider recognition. The book includes long interviews with David Salle, Paul McCarthy, Helene Winer, Matt Mullican and Daniel Lentz.
408 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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50 Feminist Art Manifestos
Isbn 9780992693466
Publisher KT Press
Idea code 22086
€ 22.10
This anthology contains the original manifestos of 50 women artists/feminist groups/feministprotests. Introductory essay by Katy Deepwell. What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional mission statement, nor religious dogma; neither a poem, nor a book. As a form of literature, manifestos occupy a specific place in the history of public discourse as a means to communicate radical ideas. Distributed as often ephemeral documents, as leaflets or pamphlets in political campaigns or as announcements of the formation of new parties or new avant-gardes, manifestos above all declare what its authors are for and against, and ask people who read them to join them, to understand, to share these ideas.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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A Cookbook Of Invisible Writing
Isbn 9789491677953
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22020
€ 20.00
A Cookbook of Invisible Writing provides a wide variety of invisible ink recipes and other communication techniques that may be used to subvert surveillance, bypass censorship and make visible the struggles of minorities and other marginalised cultures. Additionally, it aims to inspire communities to develop their own new poetic and playful forms of communication as a way of nurturing social bonds.
224 p, ills ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Movement Making Movement
Isbn 9788963032658
Publisher MMCA
Idea code 22009
€ 41.85
Presented by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), the exhibition ‘Movement Making Movements’ introduces five artists, all of them 20th-century pioneers of animation in film. It offers a fascinating and in-depth look at their passionate drive to experiment, the techniques and strategies they developed, and their place in the wider canon of film and animation history. Starting with Lotte Reiniger’s early silhouette puppets, it goes on to cover Len Lye’s use of the new medium of colour film, Oskar Fischinger’s art of visual music, the special effects conjured by Karel Zeman, and the highly expressive techniques developed by Norman McLaren.
140 , ills colour & bw, , Korean/English
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Art(ificial) Garden, The Border Between Us
Isbn 9788963032719
Publisher MMCA
Idea code 22010
€ 47.80
Appearing in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), this publication continues a reflection on the relationship between humans and nature. It includes contributions by a number of specialists from various fields – ethics, veterinary science, architecture and landscape architecture – who analyse our current situation and call for change by suggesting ways that animals, plants, and humans can better live together. How can the power we as humans have gained be redirected so we can effectively coexist with our non-human counterparts? And how can we use art to visualise these questions?
272 p, ills colour & bw, pb, Korean/English
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Jasper De Beijer - Critical Mass
Isbn 9789492852533
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22067
€ 29.50
The world Jasper de Beijer presents to us through his photographic works is simultaneously fascinating, familiar, and disconcerting. His work is about the process of looking, seeing, and interpreting. An observer might first see a historical image, but then later realise it is a photograph of a paper model. The viewer is swept into a narrative that is more than a photograph, and feels the need to respond in some way. But how? This is precisely the question the artist is asking: Do you really know what you are seeing? His publication ‘Critical Mass’ appears in conjunction with an exhibition at Museum Rijswijk. With text contributions by Arnoud van Aalst, Diana Wind, and Merel Bem.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Federico Antonini - Simplifying My Library
Isbn 9783952489475
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 22069
€ 17.25
This visual essay was created by Federico Antonini by combining various images that are linked through the theme of backward shelving – the defunctionalizing practice of positioning books in bookcases with the backs facing the wall and the counter-back (or fore edge) towards the observer. This trend has gained in popularity in recent years with furniture sellers as a way to avoid copyright infringements or complaints of surreptitious advertising. From there it has spread to the fashionable realm of home décor that leans towards a superficial minimalism. But in reality, this practice has a much older and deeply rooted history in publishing, something which Antonini relates here.
256 p, ills bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Post-Capital: A Reader
Isbn 9788867494774
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 22121
€ 43.00
Post-Capital: A Reader is published as both a reader and a catalogue accompanying the exhibition Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age, curated by Michelle Cotton at Mudam Luxembourg. This richly illustrated volume documents works of sculpture, painting, photography, video, and performance by more than twenty artists from different parts of the world, all addressing production, consumption, and wealth.
188 p, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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